24/3/13

Palmeros de Chacao | The Laborers

Since 1770, the palm leaves that are used to celebrate Palm Sunday are downloaded from Ávila Montain by Los Palmeros of Chacao (Palmers of Chacao). A tradition that began, like most, by a miracle: in the year 1770, laborers on the estates took palm leaves from Ávila Mountain and gave them to those affected by a plague that was ravaging the city. And the miracle did it.